[Free-sklyarov-uk] Rick Boucher forging ahead with "fair use" improvements

[Jim Peters]

This article has a few details on what Rick Boucher is up to regarding
pushing back some of the "fair use" restrictions that have come in in
the US:

  http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/1381471

> ... the Virginia Democrat urged the record industry to reconsider
> introducing the copy-protected CDs. "I'm just a little perplexed to
> understand the rationale for this. There will be a very heavy cost
> that the industry will pay when copy-protected CDs are introduced,"
> Boucher said.
> 
> While conceding later that copy-protected CDs aren't against
> existing law, he said their introduction wouldn't even impact the
> music piracy the music industry is trying to stop. Instead, the move
> will "anger millions of their best-customers who have become
> accustomed of making copies [of CDs] for their own use," which is
> allowed under "fair use" provisions of copyright law.

There is a list of changes he wants to make, but I don't think there
is enough detail here to really figure out what all the implications
might be.

Jim

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